July 17, 2021; 7 AM
When You Have a
Challenging Day
This post
is not what I intended to be the next post; however, this is what came to me
after a recent fall.
Do you sometimes feel as though discouragement
is just about everywhere? I mean, you have a goal in mind, i.e., to lose weight,
get your finances under control, be healthy, etc. You begin working diligently
towards your plan; eating right, exercising, or changing your spending habits
and then boom! Something happens. You went to a friend's house. They know that you're
working on your weight, but everything they've prepared and served buffet style
is loaded in butter or fried. The only thing that will work for you is a salad bowl
of lettuce leaves; no carrots, cucumbers are anything else that would satiate
you. You end up eating as much of the salad as you can stomach; by the time you
return home after around 10 o'clock, you're raiding the refrigerator.
Or take me, for example, I have been working on losing weight and
keeping it off, so besides being diligent about what I eat, I try to get in
some form of exercise at least five days a week. So, last week, I didn't get to
work out in the morning, so later after lunch, I decided to take a 15-minute
walk and I was doing perfectly fine until a dog from one of the yards
frightened me and I ended up falling.
Praise
the Lord that I am resilient. My ego was bruised and my knee banged up a little.
However, I didn't fracture anything, which generally is the case, except for
that time when I fell off my bicycle at the beach. But that is a story for
another day. J
I was
able to jump right back up, torn pants and busted knee and all (I told you I
was resilient) and walked back home breathing fire the entire time. I was so
upset because when I fell, I had been thinking of all the things I was grateful
for and praising God and asking Him for his continuous help on my quest to lose
weight.
I
wouldn't be candid if I said I came home and was in a sunshiny mood because I
wasn't. In fact, after tossing back an Ibuprofen, I went upstairs to nurse my
mental and physical wounds, crying (something I hate doing) the entire time. My
poor daughter, who is not well herself, came upstairs to check on me to make
sure I didn't need to go to immediate care. Now, anyone could look at this
situation as a setback, which I did end up slowing down a few days. However, I
didn't allow the fall to upset the rest of my day.
How do
you look at things when discouragement or challenges come? Do you allow it to spoil
the remainder of your day? It is okay, of course, to be upset and discouraged,
but you mustn't remain in a negative state. I could have moped around the house.
But I didn't. Instead, after making sure
my knee was cleaned up and covered, I finished watching the movie I started
before I went walking, had dinner with my daughter as planned and then later
watched Murder She Wrote with my family.
God
calls us to be happy in all things. Take some time to look around at your
attitude and how you handle what life throws you. After getting a flat tire, it
is okay if yesterday made you late for work, and you remained in a funk all
day. Today is a new day and a perfect time to turn that mood around. Some days
are more complex than others to have a good attitude. The important thing is to
try and the more you do it, the easier it will become.
Blessings and love,
Samella
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